While fruits and veggies generally do the body good, they can cause troubling symptoms if you have oral allergy syndrome. OAS is an allergic reaction to proteins found in fruits and vegetable. It can cause your lips, tongue and throat to itch, tingle, and/or swell...
Plenty of people are jumping on the gluten-free bandwagon, but before you decide if it’s the right choice for you, consider the different gluten and wheat-related allergies and intolerances. Wheat allergies and celiac disease are often used interchangeably....
Are you considering sublingual immunotherapy (also known as allergy drops) for your allergies? Sublingual immunotherapy was developed in the mid-1980s as a safer, easier alternative to allergy shots. The perks? For one, there are no shots. SLIT is taken by squeezing...
Scientists only put a name on eosinophilic esophagitis in the past couple decades, but it is fast becoming a major cause of gastrointestinal illness. EE is characterized by a build-up of white blood cells (eosinophils) in the esophagus. The cells cause inflammation...
While many people know about treatment for environmental allergies (pollen, dust, pet dander, etc.), fewer people are aware of new developments in food allergy treatment. It used to be that the standard advice for food allergy sufferers was to simply avoid problem...
It has been observed that children who live on farms or in rural areas, who belong to families with three or more siblings, and who grow up in less-developed countries often have a lower incidence of allergies than other children. This rising phenomenon has been...
